76 Returning back to camp (1/2)

During these three days, I did little more than hunt, learn and sleep.

And though the white coins in my possession grew at a steady rate, the amount of crystals I consumed everyday was decreased by quite a bit because I had to gave a lot of them to Jasvinder for his 'teachings'.

But even though a part of me worried about the fact that I was not growing strong, another part of me knew that learning these skills will help me more in the long run instead of pumping myself with crystals.

And now that I had learned the necessary (if basic) skills of hunting on my own, I was ready to return back to the town.

To meet Neha, Upma and check up on old man Gaurav.

'I had said that I would return after one day, but I took four days to reach a this level which I feel is satisfied with myself. Oh well… It is how it is.'

With such thoughts, I turned around and started walking in the direction of the town.

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The town had not changed much from the past four days. The defenses looked a bit battered and broken at places. The guards looked beaten and exhausted. And there was a general gloom in the atmosphere.

Oh, and there were also the thousands of dead bodies lying around the town.

When I returned, I could see some of the people dragging the corpses in a pile. One such pile was already burning in the corner and emanating a fierce stench and attracting even more abnormals and mutant beasts to the town.

They came in scattered forces. Two or three at a time, so even the weaker people with guns could take care of them with ease.

But then the gun shots would attract more of these creatures.

It was a never ending cycle. At least until we run out of bullets and those mutant beasts and abnormals grow so much in number that we had no other choice but to run.

'I can see why Rahul would change camp places from time to time.' Lily said in my mind as two little mutant dogs, twice the size of a normal dog ran up to me with hunger in their eyes.

I bent down slowly with my raised hand and when they jumped at me, I just gave single swing and both of them were sliced in half at once.

I took out the crystals and continued on my way with a smile on my face.

A few days ago, I would have definitely have taken more time and effort to kill them. Make no mistake, those mutant dogs were weak and I would have killed them in the end regardless. But not with such efficiency.

Four days of continuous hunting in the forest and reading the attack patters and habits of every single mutant beast I could find had made me an efficient killer.

I may not have increased my stats these past days, but my skills did get a huge increase.

I went to the person who had now stopped collecting the corpses and was staring at me with a slack jaw and handed him the corpses of the two mutant dogs.

”Add them to the pile.” I said and was impressed by how deep my voice had become recently.

Maybe it was because of my evolution.

But I was more inclined to believe that the changes in my voice and personality happened because of the number of mutant beasts and abnormals I had killed.

Oh well. It is what it is.

I looked at the guards who were still staring at me with a bit of shock and fear in their eyes and frowned a bit.